TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Multiple Site Management, Managed Safety, Quality, Productivity and Profitability for 4 factories
• Production, Warehouse, Maintenance, Management and Supervisory experience
• Plant Engineering Experience, Capital Projects, Major Repairs and Preventive Maintenance
• Factory and Warehouse Consolidation/Closure and Expansion experience
• CI, Lean Thinking and 6S instructor for multiple factories
• Performance Management and Supervisory Development Training
• ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor and Site Registration Accomplishments
• Warehouse Management Systems Expertise, CAMBAR
• RF (Radio Frequency) usage and Inventory Control
• ADAGE and Oracle 11i ERP systems experience
• Micromain, AS/400, DB2 and SQL usage
• Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
• LOAD CONFIGURATOR, AutoCad, Pro-Engineer, KRONOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Plant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and evaluations for plant staff;
• Propose improvements and changes in procedures to improve quality, safety, service, efficiency, and lead-time.
• Maintain a clean and safe plant. Maintain good housekeeping taking plant to a world class level, including waste reduction, reduction in customer returns, and best practices.
• Ensure proper staffing levels are in place, while meeting budget requirements.
• Ensure proper training is being conducted with staff.
• Ensure employee performance reviews are being conducted per Ennis-Flint guidelines.
• Recognize and manage successful employee achievements and performance deficiencies.
• Ensure production schedules are reviewed continuously.
• Ensure proper notification is taking place in a timely manner with material shortages, quality, safety, and employees issues per Ennis-Flint guidelines.
• Ensure a thorough understanding of quality requirements.
• Understand and keep current on technology of plant.
• Ensure there are scheduled and conducted production, quality, and safety plant meetings per Ennis-Flint guidelines.
• Ensure compliance to all safety, health, and environmental requirements are being administered per Ennis-Flint guidelines and with local, state, and federal regulations.
• Ensure any injury is dealt with immediately in an appropriate manner and reported per Ennis-Flint guidelines.
• Ensure preventative maintenance practices and procedures are being completed per Ennis-Flint guidelines.
• Optimize plant operation cost and meet operating budget while improving production yields.

Confidential, Reno, NV

Plant Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide a safe and healthy work environment for all employees through proper maintenance of equipment and facilities and elimination of health hazards to prevent work stoppage and time loss due to accidents, while ensuring adherence to all applicable environmental, health and safety regulations, standards and policies.
• Provide leadership, develop and implement management systems to ensure safe work behavior by employees.
• Manage a 2 shift, 5-day Maintenance Support function (with occasional weekend work as necessary) for the Reno Plant. Ensure that each Maintenance Department employee understands and adheres to all company policies and procedures regarding safety, health and the environment and that the proper training programs are in place to ensure that all applicable standards are met.
• Effectively lead associates, encouraging a continuous improvement of individual performance while maintaining the operating philosophy of Reno Management. Comply with all EEO policies and procedures.
• Provide plant engineering and maintenance support for manufacturing plant approximately 1000 SKUs for paint products representing 10 MM gallons to meet customer requirements and plant goals.
• Efficiently develop and utilize people, equipment, materials, utilities and budget to meet Strategic Business Unit (SBU) requirements for safety, environment, quality, labor and expense.
• In cooperation with local staff, plan, organize and manage the engineering and installation of specific projects to meet business needs in growth, maintaining existing capacity and/ or improve our position in safety, cost or quality.
• Drive continuous improvement in OEE for high speed filling Lines, maintain process control automation (PLC and DSC) for paint making operation and implement solutions to improve overall productivity.
• Provide network assistance and leadership for plant Maintenance and Engineering projects at other North American Architectural Coatings sites.
• Develop and document best practices and procedures for use across the Architectural Coatings NA network
• Managed multiple projects Capital and Expense on time and under budget

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Operations & Manufacturing Director

Responsibilities:

• Major Repairs, Preventive Maintenance, and Capital Installations
• Safety, Quality, Productivity and Shipping Metrics
• Participate in Union Contract negotiations
• Coordination of interaction of plants with Human Resource and Laboratory Managers
• Continuous improvement activities associated with ISO and daily site operations
• Review P/L statements for operations, and forecast data to determine department or division progress toward stated goals and objectives
• Plan, develop, and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve production operations, minimize operating costs, and maximize the effectiveness of labor and materials
• Prepares department budget and monitors expenditure of funds in budgets
• Confer with VP and other administrative personnel to review achievements and discuss required changes in goals or objectives resulting from current status and conditions
• Prepare and Coordinate completion of Capital plans that strategically align with corporate goals and objectives

Confidential, Indianapolis,IN

Production Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing safety improvement efforts
• Lead efforts to reduce late production batches
• Reorganize manufacturing headcount to increase daily throughput
• Improve production quality for improved batch variance results
• Control production supply costs and minimize waste generation
• Recognition of supervisor/employee accomplishments and provide directives for improvement
• Approve/Order equipment and production supplies
• Order/Request equipment and facility repairs/improvements
• Communicate with plant, quality, technical and warehouse management and other key staff personnel to facilitate meeting daily shipping/production requirements and coordination of special projects
• Identify cost reductions areas and other improvement opportunities
• Complete performance appraisals on a bi-annual basis
• Graduated from the Valspar XML3 (Excellence in Manufacturing Leadership) class
• Modified and Implemented Skill Certification training guides and training matrices for new employees

Confidential, Moline, IL

Production Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing safety improvement efforts
• Improve production quality for increased batch variance results
• Control production supply costs and minimize waste generation
• Recognition of supervisor/employee accomplishments and provide directives for improvement
• Approve/Order equipment and production supplies
• Order/Request equipment and facility repairs/improvements
• Communicate with plant, quality and warehouse management and other key staff personnel to facilitate meeting daily shipping/production requirements and coordination of special projects
• Identify cost reductions areas and other improvement opportunities
• Complete performance appraisals on a bi-annual basis
• 9 successive quarters without any recordable injuries
• Increased yearly productivity levels 2 years running
• Achieved multiple plant production records - Yearly, Monthly and Daily

Confidential, Moline, IL

Warehouse Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily shipping safety huddles
• Lead efforts to reduce inventory parts reduction
• Improve inventory organization and reduce inventory variance
• Control costs and minimize waste
• Approve/Order equipment and shipping supplies
• Order/Request equipment and facility repairs/improvements
• Conduct monthly audits to identify cost reductions and other improvement opportunities
• Complete performance appraisals on a bi-annual basis
• 7 successive months of exceeding On-Time delivery performance goals
• No department Lost time or Recordable incidents, recently celebrated 5 years (June.03.)
• Coordinated Safety Awareness Banner’s through dept. contest

Confidential, Davenport, Iowa

Warehouse Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain sanitary conditions according to GMP’s and AIB standards
• Communicate with production management and other key staff personnel to facilitate meeting daily shipping/production requirements and coordination of special projects
• Conduct monthly safety training, identify cost reductions and improvement opportunities
• Served on Plant Emergency Organization and Safety Committees
• United Way Loaned Executive Program (1999 Campaign). Team surpassed a record $7.9 million dollar goal.
• Participated in United Way Fund Distribution 2000, Outcomes Measurement Program basis
• Meets or Exceeds ratings on individual performance ratings
• Inventory fill rates of 99.5% (pure case fill) and Delivery rates of 95+% on-time
• Inventory Variance of .07-.08%, Inventory of 50,000 + unit loads - both DC’s 560,000+ Sq. Ft.
• Received promotion from 2 nd shift Supervisor to 1st shift Department Supervisor
• Coordinated Warehouse Expansion projects
• Developed and maintained A,B,C Warehouse lay-outs
• Certified Forktruck Trainer/Tester
• OSHA 40 Hour Class and re-fresher courses
• Attended HAZCOM, HAZWOPER and D.O.T. HAZMAT classes
• Served as a PEO and Safety Committee Member
• Perfect attendance
• First-Aid and CPR instructor